[s-cars] Removing an S4 seat when the fore-aft motor is fried.

[Joshua van Tol]

Or give the motor a good whack. That might get it going again.

Or, perhaps take the end of the motor off, and turn the shaft by  
hand, or with a drill.

On Nov 11, 2007, at 2:22 PM, chris chambers wrote:

> If you have access to the motor can you swap in a good motor?
>
>
> --- David Forgie <forgied at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>> This on behalf of Gabriel Caldwell who is busy stripping rear-ended
>> pearl on black 93 S4.  I was helping him yesterday when he hit a
>> problem:  The rear window of the car was smashed in the accident and
>> there was water in the right rear passenger footwell.  The front
>> passenger seat mechanicals must also have been flooded because the
>> fore-aft motor seems to be dead (all the other ones work).  The
>> problem is without that motor functioning, it seems impossible to get
>> the seat out because you can't move it back (or forward) to expose
>> the bolts that hold the seat to the floor.  I figured out how to
>> remove two screws that hold the seat to the seat frame (part of the
>> tilt system) and was able to tilt the entire seat back to expose the
>> dead motor.  At Gabriel's suggestion, I swapped the power connections
>> from a known to be good motor to the dead motor but nothing happened,
>> i.e. its the motor.
>>
>> Are there any manual means of moving the seat forward or backwards?
>> There is a sawzall solution but that really only gets the seat out
>> the car and does not solve the problem (for resale).
>>
>> TIA
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